Workday

Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company's human resources and financial management activities. Workday is the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for human resources, payroll and financial management, providing new levels of business agility for a fraction of the cost of buying, deploying and maintaining legacy on-premises systems. More than 130 customers, spanning mid-sized organizations to global Fortune 500 businesses, have selected Workday. Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Financial Management use modern, standards-based technologies to provide an unparalleled level of agility, ease-of-use, and integration capability.

2005: From these principles, Workday was founded in 2005. But since 2005 he has been on a nonstop crusade to turn Workday into a winner.

2008: On February 6, 2008, Workday announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase Cape Clear. In December 2008, Workday moved its headquarters from Walnut Creek, California, to Pleasanton, California, where PeopleSoft founder Duffield's prior company, was located.

2009: On April 29, 2009, Workday announced that it secured $75 million in funding led by New Enterprise Associates. After dismissing cloud mania as "nonsense" in 2009, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison more recently has become a cloud enthusiast, buying full-page magazine ads to tell people about his company's many initiatives in this area.

2011: On October 24, 2011, Workday announced $85 million in new funding, bringing total capital raised to $250 million.

2012: The IPO raised more cash than any launch in the United States technology sector since Facebook's $16 billion IPO in May 2012. As of spring 2012, Workday had 310 customers, ranging from mid-sized businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

2016: In first quarter 2016, Workday announced annual revenue in excess of $1 billion for the first time ever in fiscal year 2016.

2018: In 2018 Workday acquired Filip Doušek's company Stories.bi.

2019: Their most recent acquisition was Scout RFP on Nov 4, 2019.

2020: Their most recent investment was on Jan 22, 2020, when tealbook raised $5M. In 2020, Chano Fernandez was promoted to co-CEO. Dave Duffield serves as the chairman of the board.

2021: As of January 2021, Workday launched COVID-19 Vaccine Management Solution to Enable Organizations to Protect and Support their Workforce. In November 2021, Workdays announced its acquisition of VNDLY, startup that helps companies manage external workforce personnel, for $510 million.

According to Workday, the company mission is: “to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications".

As stated in company website, Workday vision is: "to aim for innovation not only in development organization, but also in the way we approach every aspect of our business".